User:RobCranston

Early Life
I was born Robert Cranston III, in Atlanta Georgia, on January 18, 2002 to the parents Jackie and Robert Cranston. Though I was born in the United States both of my parents were born and raised in Kingston Jamaica which led to me being raised in a Jamaican household. This was evident in all aspects of my house, from the food that we ate, to the music that was played in the house.

Schooling
I began my schooling at Integrity Christian Academy at the age of four. My parents chose to send me to a private school because it allowed me to start school a year earlier(this sucked when I got to high school and all of my friends could get their license a year earlier than me). In second grade I transferred to Annistown Elementary School, a public school in the Shiloh cluster which I remained in for middle and high school. For middle school I went to Shiloh Middle School and for high school I went to Shiloh High School.

Track
In sixth grade I joined the track team, which started me on the running career that I continued till my senior year of high school. All throughout middle school I was a distance runner but during that time running was just something that I did for fun. It was not until the summer after ninth grade that I finally began to take track seriously. After that I lived and breathed running. My summers were spent training for cross country, my falls were spent competing for cross country, my winters were spent training for track, and my springs were spent competing for track. I continued this and was pretty good until my senior year of high school when I injured my knee ending my running career right before track season started.

HOSA - Future Healthcare Providers
When my running career ended it wasn't all bad because I found a club to replace it with. This was HOSA which is the club that inspired me to be pre-med. In this club I competed with a partner in a competition called EMT Training. During this, my partner and I studied to take the national certification for EMT's as well as practiced the skills, such as CPR, backboarding, and trauma assessment that EMT's need to pass. When we finally competed my partner and I won first in the state allowing us to advance to Internationals in Orlando Florida in the Summer of 2019, even though we ended up getting blown out there.

Grand Challenge
When It Comes To Nitrogen, The 'Fix' Is In, University of Washington, June 16, 2008, 9/19/2019(Grand Challenge)